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Violence erupted across eastern Ukraine yesterday as the interim government
suffered its worst losses since a pro-Russian revolt began two months ago.
At least 13 soldiers were killed in a dawn raid near the village of
Blahodatne, 20 miles south of Donetsk.

With the country due to vote in presidential elections in two days’ time,
there were also clashes in at least three other locations across the restive
east.

Increasingly jumpy rebels remain in control of Slovyansk, the scene of
overnight battles lasting for hours. Missiles appar­ently fired from
government positions hit civilian dwellings in the centre of the town

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Zinaida Patskan, 80, in her house, destroyed by the Ukranian shelling of Semyonovka village

May 23 2014 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

Zinaida Patskan, 80, in her house, destroyed by the Ukranian shelling of Semyonovka village

May 23 2014 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

A woman is overcome with emotion following the shelling of Semyonovka

May 23 2014 Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Residents clear up in a wrecked building at a checkpoint in Slavyansk

May 23 2014 Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

A rebel runs past a house set alight by a mortar shell in Lysychansk

May 23 2014 Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Ukrainian officers inspect the firefight site near the village of Blahodatne